Posted at 12:10 GMT on Friday 15th September 2006

The first starts at 12:00 GMT on Saturday, for 24 hours of 1 minute ticks.

The second starts on Monday at 12:00 GMT until Saturday at 12:00 GMT with 5 minute ticks. Signups for this event will open on Sunday evening, after the game has been reset from the first speedgame.

Both games will contain a shuffle at tick 36.

The game will be setup in a different way to Round 18. The changes (at least for the first game) are summarised as follows:
Alliance limits 30, top 20 count. This is the same for all alliances.
Buddy packs of 5.
Planet reset / delete option will be available, as mentioned previously.
Alliance mergers will be operational for any alliances who will, after merging, contain 20 members (as well as during the merging).

All Xan ships stated as "cloaked" are not visible to unit or fleet scans. They also do not show up on overview or galaxy status. Only their pods / structure killers / "all" ship do.